NPH Talks Harold and Kumar 3

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Will Harris be back for the next film?

By Eric Goldman

Last night, Neil Patrick Harris was on hand at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for an event honoring his series How I Met Your Mother, which has garnered Harris two Emmy nominations. Before he went on stage, I had the chance to ask him about the third Harold & Kumar film, which series creators Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg have been developing.

So will the mythical "NPH" version of Harris seen in the first two installments return again? Harris referred to the events of Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, noting, "I survived two shotgun wounds to the chest, so I can't imagine I'd go away!"

While Harris wouldn't reveal any potential storyline, he did say, "I talked to [Hurwitz and Schlossberg] and I think they're excited about some potential stuff. Their ideas are strong. I'm always concerned about them jumping the shark -- I think as Kal [Penn] and John [Cho] are as well -- and they surprised me with the ideas that they had for the third movie. I wholeheartedly approved of what they wanted to do."

NPH being awesome in thesecond Harold & Kumar film

The second Harold and Kumar film famously had a sequence in which Harris was seen riding a unicorn. When I joked with Harris that perhaps he could ride a griffin in the third film, he laughed and replied, "A griffin! That would be all CG. Maybe we can do it like claymation style."